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Ambrose MacDonald is a Palawa designer and craftsman from Cape Barren Island. He is often commissioned to craft furniture, which he makes from Australian native trees. A seat made by MacDonald is on the viewing platform of the Alum Cliffs lookout where one can look over the Mersey River, in Northern Tasmania. In 2003, MacDonald participated in the Woollily Exhibition at the Carnegie Gallery in Hobart. As fellow artist Ricky Maynard writes in the exhibition catalogue: “Hard work, a natural skill and an instinctive eye from 'walking country’ and gathering materials is something he says was always part of him, he simply had to connect”. MacDonald has also written poetry, and a collection of poems he wrote while in Risdon Prison in Hobart, titled The Caged Beast, was published in 1983.

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Writers:

Fisher, Laura

Date written:

2008

Last updated:

2011